This course provides an overview of process safety engineering fundamentals for hydrocarbon processing facilities, with emphasis on the upstream oil & gas sector. The focus of this course is on the ...

Companies that treat process safety as a compliance exercise are missing the point entirely. It is not about meeting standards, but whether an operation can survive the next decade. Chemical and ...

Standard safety or operating procedures are a set of instructions an organization or industry association develops to define or standardize the steps involved in specific tasks that are part of a ...

Many workplace safety conversations focus on occupational safety—reducing slips, trips, falls, and other personal injuries. But in high-hazard operations, that’s only half the story. Process safety is ...

Is it safer to work at or live near a chemical plant today than it was 20 years ago, before Bhopal? Maybe. "I can't say such an accident won't happen in the U.S., but it would be hard to occur," says ...

Before joining UMass Lowell Afshan Maase worked in upstream oil and gas for British Petroleum (BP) in Alaska. She worked as a Process Engineer in long term major capital projects. In addition, Ms.